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Darion's Office 44

Barbara was sitting in her room, bored out of her mind. She made the mistake of promising someone from her class that she would go to a party … but she was not in the mood. After the day she had at work, she wasn’t in the mood. 

Unfortunately, it was also the reason why she was sitting alone in her room with the lights turned off. After all, her excuse was that she had to go back home for an emergency. It wouldn’t do well if someone actually noticed the light. 

She...

Immortal Freeloader 22B

She said nothing as she dragged me to a huge bedroom and threw me to her bed. More daring than I was used to, but the speed she was able to throw me suggested that Elsana liked having control in the bedroom. 

I was more interested in the speed she climbed onto the bed right next to me, showing that all those poems and sexy gazes were not for nothing. She was already panting with desire, which she didn’t bother to hide. 

It was ill-advised, maybe, but I was already arou...

Immortal Freeloader 22

I ignored the gazes of the others as we walked out of the Arena, Elsana walking next to me. She said nothing until we arrived at a carriage, which was more luxurious than the room I rented at the inn. 

There was a maid inside, waiting for her, but she made a gesture to send her away, leaving us alone in the carriage. I sat down, doing my best to look slightly surprised by the decoration — to remind her that I came from a rich family, but not one that matched her splendor — &nbs...

Immortal Freeloader 21

Linnayin looked unhappy about the way Falhaner spoke, but I caught her gaze and shook my head, asking her not to push it. I was very happy about the minor insult she delivered. 

More importantly, the System made it clear that she was considerably stronger than Linnayin when it came to fighting. Also, she clearly had a high rank, enough that she could probably kill me without consequence if she wanted. 

Not a good target to annoy. 

Linnayin nodded readily, whic...

Immortal Freeloader 20

Finding a place to live was easier than I expected. After all, while we made some enemies, enough to blacklist us from the inns, it required our followers to follow us and alert the places in advance. Disguising ourselves before getting a room in a cheaper inn had been easy. 

I left Pearyin in the room with two basic takedown moves to practice, enough food to keep her sated for a few days, and even gave some money for emergencies — one I received directly from Lannayin and not fr...

Immortal Freeloader 19

It didn’t take long for me to realize I managed to jinx myself, because when I arrived back at my inn, I only came across the small luggage I had purchased, and Pearyin waiting for me with a sad expression on her face.  

“What’s going on?” I said with a frown. 

“We have been kicked off,” she said. “I don’t know why, but the head waitress said something about offending the wrong people.” But, as she raised her arm, she flinched badly. 

“Did ...

Immortal Freeloader 18

After seeing Elsana’s Apothecary, I had some expectations for Lannayin’s forge, expecting to find another walled compound, filled with a small army of disciples and servants. The location of it, near the center of the city, didn’t change it. 

To my surprise, I found a sole, almost ruined building, with its immediate surroundings empty. It looked like someone had transported the building from some kind of ruin. If it wasn’t for the signboard in the front, Volcano Forge, I wo...

Immortal Freeloader 17

“Now, the first thing about the Forest Dance technique is the basic stance,” I said as I put my hand on her back, and she shivered. Of course, what I called Forest Dance was the mixture of Judo and Aikido that I could remember, modified through my newfound combat talent. 

Feeling like a genius was fun. 

“Is it supposed to feel awkward and uncomfortable?” she asked, still hesitant. 

“Yes,” I said as I took the same stance, feeling like I was a tree,...

Immortal Freeloader 16

I woke up when my bed partner started stirring. 

Another benefit of martial arts skills, a couple of hours of sleep was enough to feel refreshed, as long as I didn’t push myself too much with martial techniques and deplete too much essence. 

Then, I looked at the beauty in my arms, and couldn’t help but wonder what would happen now that she lost her virginity. Considering just how aggressively she had been pushing to seduce me, it caught me flatfooted. 

It...

Immortal Freeloader 15B

Her gasp turned even more beautiful as I stood up and she took the full view of my nude body. I had worked hard to sculpt it to perfection even before my arrival, and my martial abilities helped me to look even better. Even the other martial artists didn’t have a body as sculpted at me, because my workouts after my injury were more focused on how I looked than actually looking functional. 

“Get on the bed, Master,” I ordered, and she shivered once more. The enjoyment she drov...

Immortal Freeloader 15

There was another hot bath prepared in my room. A nice touch. My excessive generosity was showing its benefits. 

I didn’t expect a knock on the door barely half an hour later. “Your books are here, young master,” the waitress said. “May I come in?” 

“Yes, come in,” I said, not bothering to leave the bath. The bathroom door was open as well, but the flower petals had covered the surface to make the scene acceptable. “Bring the books here,” I said, not wa...

Immortal Freeloader 14

“… and that’s how I found my way through the forest,” I said, finishing another tale that I had shamelessly plagiarized from the stories. 

“Another amazing tale,” Lannayin said as she downed another glass, her words slurring slightly, enough to show that she had been enjoying my stories greatly. Elsana wore a calmer expression, sharp enough to realize that I had avoided giving out too many details and stayed generic. 

She likely assumed they were all fiction....

Immortal Freeloader 13

After the first poem, there were several other gifts from the crowd downstairs, but I had turned them categorically, which made the first two older ladies even more smug. After all, they were the only ones that had been ‘given face’ while the others failed.  

Of course, that was once again based on my request. I had made it clear to the waitress that I wouldn’t receive any more gifts from their customers on the lower floor. The first one, I accepted to further my disguise, an...

Immortal Freeloader 12

“It’s shocking just how good it feels to finally be clean, and slept in a proper bed,” I said even as I checked myself in the mirror, making sure nothing was out of order. The first set of clothing I had ordered arrived while I slept, and now I was about to go out. 

It was barely evening, and I slept less than I had been dreaming … unfortunately, the physical improvement from Martial Arts meant that ten hours of sleep was more than enough to get rid of the exhaustion I accu...

Immortal Freeloader 11

I found an opportunity to change into a clean set of clothes. Dressing as a poor villager was safer when I was traveling, but a young scholar was safer in the city. Not to mention, it would allow me to get in contact with people with higher cultivation. 

I also buried the Tiger Fist Manuals in that hidden spot, afraid of being searched. 

Once I started walking closer, I paid greater attention to the city. The most attention-grabbing part was that, while the city itself w...

Immortal Freeloader 10

“Thank you for all the free food,” I said as I bowed at her, then turned, ready to leave. Her panic was too thick for her to just worry about me. They were clearly here for her. I didn’t know the story between them … and I didn’t have the time to ask that. 

“It was a pleasure for me as well,” she said as she reached under her stall, fumbling. “Don’t use Tiger Fist in any cities, they have dojos everywhere,” she said, then pushed a small bag into my hand. “Now,...

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Immortal Freeloader 9

“… and, you need to be really careful about how to hold your knife. Never let your finger leave on the path of the blade. Always pay attention to the fire,” Marana, the mysteriously strong food stall owner explained as she tried to teach me to cook. 

It had been a week since I returned to Dumassa, and my life had fallen into a routine. I visited the stalls in the morning for breakfast, then went near the gates, looking for work, usually to unload the grain or load furs. The k...

Immortal Freeloader 8

I returned to Dumassa the next morning, after spending the entire night reading the Tiger Fist manuscript dozens of times, focusing on Initiate and Muscle Reinforcement sections, trying to see if there was a way to detect others and hide my ability. 

A significant time investment, but not for nothing. There were two benefits; one immediate, one conceptual. The immediate benefit, after reading the confusing poems again and again, I discovered one of them had been discovering a way t...

Immortal Freeloader 7

“Well, it was not a bad haul,” I said as I looked at another town. It was a week away from Dumassa with a walking pace, but I arrived it late afternoon … and that was with stopping by every caravan and traveler group on the way for begging. 

Not all of them gave anything, and the ones that gave something limited themselves to copper pieces and leftover rotten food. Though, one group I gave me a bunch of old clothes. Though, one group also gave me a set of their old clothes as...

Immortal Freeloader 6

When the dawn arrived, I was still reading the book. I had understood every word easily despite the unfamiliar, complicated style of writing that put Chinese and Japanese to shame — based on my very limited understanding — but that didn’t make understanding the fighting technique described any easier. 

“In the dance of combat, a graceful figure forms. Tiger ascends, a beacon descends,” I read, trying to understand exactly how that linked to the weird drawing of a punch. �...

Immortal Freeloader 5

As I walked toward the town, I decided on a simple role. A young man who decided to travel to escape an arranged marriage. I was handsome enough for it to be believable, and an overprotective family was the best excuse I had for any big mistake. 

Hopefully, it would be still enough to make people pity me while throwing a few scraps in my way, and let the System upgrade it. 

I had no idea what that divine voice was thinking when she granted the Freeloader System as punish...

Immortal Freeloader 4

The caravan I noticed at a distance wasn’t too large. Eight carts, each pulled by a pair of oxen and driven by one person, and two people on horseback with swords in their belt, clearly guards. It was filled with bags that looked like grain, but I didn’t care about their trade product.

I cared about it, because the caravan was a good way to test the limits of the System and understand what counted as a gift to trigger it.

I couldn’t trade for it, or the hunter would have tri...

Immortal Freeloader 3

I started moving at dawn, feeling more relaxed and stronger than I ever felt, moving toward the nearest village even as I tried to come up with an ideal way to introduce myself to a bunch of strangers. 

A way that simultaneously showed that I was best left untouched, yet was not a threat. Unfortunately, it also needed to explain where I was in the middle of nowhere, with no money, no shirt, and no shoes…  

“Feels like a tasteless frat prank,” I said with a chuckle,...

Immortal Freeloader 2

I didn’t want to move, but think about what had happened. However, if there was one useful habit I had gained from my time as a student-athlete, that it was always better to be moving. 

However, first, I consumed the pill she had given me. I didn’t expect it to be poison for two reasons. First, she could have killed me easily if she wished. Second, the system — despite its annoying name — roughly confirmed its nature as something to enhance my abilities. 

I trust...

Immortal Freeloader 1

It was a dark day, a thunderstorm was wreaking havoc outside my windows — well, technically, not my home, but the home of the beautiful lady that was currently being intimate with — but the warmth off the hug I had been enjoying had been interrupted by a beeping sound. 

“Oh, no! My husband is here! Quick, leave,” the beautiful woman I had been sharing the bed with said as she pushed me away. I reacted quickly, gathering my clothes before moving to a balcony that connected t...

Accidental Villainy 35

As Tara dashed upstairs to change into her costume — a quick process thanks to her power — I turned my attention to the camera feed once more, examining the movement of the blurry figure. The most important thing was their movement pattern. 

A spiral with occasional pauses, sometimes slipping in and out of the buildings, trying to get a better sense of what was going on through scouting, thinking that their quasi-invisibility kept them secure. A dangerous assumption, I thought ...

Accidental Villainy 34

“Such a basic mistake,” I muttered even as I looked down. “Maybe you deserve to get fired.” 

“Please, no, sir,” she gasped, trying to sound distressed rather than aroused … a challenge she failed spectacularly. “I need this job. Maybe we can pretend that it didn’t happen.” 

“Why don’t you show me just how much you need this job, then?” I said, enjoying the way she trembled. 

I caught her gaze, only for a moment before she avoided it, ...

Dominating the Boss 51

The rest of the morning passed without a notable event, and I was prepared to leave for lunch when there was a hesitant knock on the door. I invited them in. 

It was Umi, with a tray with my lunch order. 

“Welcome,” I said as I watched her take a step forward, taking in the show. She was still dressed mostly the same, but there were a couple differences. The skirt was rolled even higher, and the blouse had five buttons open — though the tray covered the spectacle. ...

Dominating the Boss 50

I was whistling in a satisfied manner as I returned to the office, feeling calm, glad that my little adventure with the owner’s daughter hadn’t turned into a crisis. She didn’t even call me, which was a happy occasion. 

The retreat had gone without a hitch after her disappearance until a last-minute emergency forced me away, preventing me from taking the same plane. A pity. Taking the same flight with them would have been fun. Unfortunately, my comfort depended on my success,...